Some groups representing deaf and hard of hearing individuals urged...
Some groups representing deaf and hard of hearing individuals urged the FCC to dismiss a petition from Hillcrest Baptist Church in El Paso, Texas, and require Hillcrest to comply with closed captioning rules. Hillcrest’s programming doesn’t qualify for exemptions because…
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it “is not a video programming distributor,” the National Association of the Deaf, Cerebral Palsy and Deaf Organization and other groups said in a filing (http://xrl.us/bm4mp7). Exemption rules “are only applicable to channels of video programming.” Hillcrest isn’t seeking an exemption for a channel, the groups said: Denying Hillcrest’s petition wouldn’t represent any unwarranted incursion on its free speech rights, but merely a recognition of its inability “to demonstrate that it cannot afford to caption its programming.” In letters to several programmers seeking a closed captioning exemption, the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau requested additional information on applications judged deficient because they were missing information. The letters were posted last week in docket 06-181, which is where the deaf groups’ opposition went.